So we here at Jingle Punks are having quite the week – first we graced the pages of Billboard Magazine, and now we’ve done gone and landed ourselves in Variety! And being the friendly folks we are, we wanted share this great press with you, because after all, if it wasn’t for all of you – none of this would be possible!
Check out both articles here…
It’s that time of year again – the time of year where we get our face plastered amongst the pages of Billboard magazine. And being the shy, bashful company that we are, we almost kept this amazing accomplishment to ourselves… But alas, the opportunity for shameless self-promotion got the better of us, so we’ve taken to shouting it from the mountain tops!
In this, the latest issue, Billboard tapped Jingle Jared to provide some helpful advice and key insight into placing your music in advertising, television and film. We feel very honored that we’ve become one of the leading voices in this industry, and proud to help influence the careers of many independent artists – and also just a little thrilled to see our name printed up in a big fancy magazine.
You can see a clipping of the article below and if you’d like to read it just check it out here.
A few weeks ago CNN dropped by the office to catch up on all things new here at Jingle Punks, our ever-growing client list, and just exactly how we got our start. The video landed us on the front page of CNN Money for a day – so we got that going for us. Check it out below.
And read the accompanying article here.
Jingle Punks continues its wild run through the press with a spot in Billboard Magazine’s Fashion Week issue. The magazine approached Jingle Jared for a little Q&A during Grammy Week all about offering insight on how artists can get their music placed in fashion related shows. Unfortunately Jared thought Billboard wanted to do an interview about his own sartorial do’s and don’ts. Needless to say they were less than impressed with his Jams Shorts. C’est la vie, at least they were able to catch him in what is fast becoming his signature pose around the offices… guitar in hands, feet off the ground, and constantly checking himself for B.O. Check it out below…
This past Friday Jingle Punks did our first ever in store for Apple. Our Apple Store presentation, “Making and Selling Your Music”, was all about how to take your dream and turn it into a reality.
Armed with the Apogee ONE and highlighting Apple’s Logic Pro, we took the attendees through the steps of how to spot the types of music that shows use and then showed step by step how to create these with tools you may already own (like Logic and Garageband); We also explained how Jingle Punks produces music for top networks like the A&E, NBC, History Channel and MTV with a speedy turnaround.
During the event Jingle Jared and Jeff even recorded short songs using a mandolin, guitar, midi controller and ONE’s internal condenser microphone demonstrating how easy it is to get great broadcast ready recordings on a budget and tight space.
We want to give Apogee a major shout out for demo products they have been sending our way. We suggest you check out their website to learn more about their awesome roster of products . In the recent months, we have been traveling with the ONE, taking advantage of its microphone while composing on location for many of our high profile clients.
Check out the History Channel’s “American Pickers” featuring music from Jingle Punks, completely recorded on Apogee’s ONE, using multiple locations and talent.
Jingle Punks = iTunes + Pandora for the Production Music World.
We have almost 15,000 tracks of indie rock, hip hop, punk, funk, orchestral and various types of production music which is searchable in our proprietary search engine, “The Jingle Player,” specialized technology which has several patents pending.
We are the first music database to allow producers, editors and PA’s to find music using musical and non-musical terms. You are just as likely to find a track you need by typing in the word Green Day, Coldplay or Snoop as you are by typing cultural references such as “Oceans 11″ , “Juno” or “Wes Anderson.” One click and one fee gives producers access to the most cost effective way of scoring original content.
In addition to the library, we have also custom composed numerous music packages (theme song, featured promos and more) for shows including “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” on Bravo, “Pawn Stars” on History and “Engaged & Underage” on MTV. By crowd-sourcing composer services, Jingle Punks acts as a bridge between many of todays hottest composers and productions looking for a cost effective solution to their music needs.
One of the most important aspects of Jingle Punks is our technology. In 2010 we are rolling out our several amazing enhancements that will make searching for music, using music in media and administering music much easier. The system that will save productions companies time and money.
One final note: Our unique blend of services and content have garnered us some great press in various industry trades and business publications including Variety and Business Week.
Business Week Link:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepreneurs/12.htm
Variety Link:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007641.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
As some of you may remember (those who follow our tweets and facebook shenanigans), a few weeks back a writer from Brazil asked to do a story on Jingle Punks Music for a magazine called PEGN, which is akin to the Business Week of Brazil. Little did we know this story was going to be epic and feature pictures of Dan and I jumping through the air like David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar on crack. There’s mention of “Milionaria” in the title too, which is worth a laugh (and some raised eyebrows from our girlfriends!).
I still don’t know exactly what the article actually says but I’m a shallow guy and it looks cool, so its good enough for me. For anyone that wants to know what is the meat of the story I can tell you only what I told the writer.
Once upon a time Dan and I went to concert, got really watsed, threw drinks on one another and the next day we started a company. OK, there is a little more to it than that, like the 120 hour work weeks we put in, our empty bank accounts, the constant travelling, the never seeing our loved ones and other boring things the kids may not want to read about…
Oh, and any Brazilian readers out there how can get a hold of a copy and let us know what it says… we’d appreciate it.
Minor note… we have a new Jingle Video blog coming live this week, so stay tuned.
Jingle All the Way!
Profile from this months ASCAP Playback Magazine
On my last trip to LA I took the opportunity to take a photo opp with one of my favorite people in the entertainment industry. Little did I know he would overshadow my chance to get a solo snap in my profile piece in the pages of ASCAP playback. Oh well, I was glad just to get a chance to let more of our ASCAP affiliated composers know about our service and how they can get involved with us.
The past few weeks have seen Jingle Punks in the trade press quite a bit and I just wanted to post a pic of the Variety Music for Screens issue which has us sharing the front cover with Penelope Cruz and The Beatles (never in my wildest dreams did I ever see myself in a pop culture sandwich of this magnitude).
Jingle Punks on cover of Variety with the Beatles
In the next few days we will be launching our 2nd Jingle Punks taste maker compilation which will be a collection of the hottest cues we have from our roster.
Jingle Punks is having one of our best weeks so far. Variety Magazine printed a really nice article about us in this weeks issue and we want to share this with our friends and clients.
Please take a moment to check this out. We don’t really even have a PR person so any press we get is always a nice surprise.
Thanks again to all our acts and clients who have made this possible and special thanks to Carson Vaughan who wrote the piece based on a cold call I made to him.
We’re going to have a drink now.
A lot of people have been asking us for more video updates because our first ones were watched by a whopping 98 people….c’mon you gotta re-tweet this if you want us to take the time to make some videos.
Anyways, if a picture is worth 1000 words than this video is worth at least 10,000 words. So on that note. No more words. Just click to watch.
